>> europe's coming out of the recessionary environment and starting to see positive gdp growth. if you're looking to invest in a local recovery in europe. it's the opposite of what's happening in japan. a weak yen is helping exporters, strong euro helping the strong exporters in europe. dfe is a european small cap etf that gets you access to the local european recovery story. >> thank you for your time this morning. >>> watching shares of mcdonald's as well, the world's largest fast food company, global same-store sales up a half percent in november. europe restaurants making up for the u.s. senior restaurant analyst at jeffrey's, good morning to you. peter, what happens it going to take? zero in on the u.s. persistent weakness here, why is it happening? is it going to reverse? >> well, you know, i think the good news for mcdonald's they do more traffic and volume than many competitors, $2.7 million per restaurant, average volume about 1300 transactions per day per restaurant compared to chipotle at 550. bad news, they're struggling to get incremental traffic. in the month of oc